Skip to main content

Table 1 MCCB tests and co-primary measurements of functioning

From: Antipsychotic drugs and their effects on cognitive function: protocol for a systematic review, pairwise, and network meta-analysis

Cognitive domain

Final battery

Beta battery

Speed of processing

Brief Assessment of Cognition in Schizophrenia (BACS): symbol coding subtest

Category fluency: animal naming

Trail Making Test: part A

Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale 3rd Ed. (WAIS-III): digit symbol-coding subtest

Attention/vigilance

Continuous Performance Test—Identical Pairs Version (CPT-IP)

3–7 Continuous Performance Test – shortened version

Working memory

Wechsler Memory Scale 3rd Ed. (WMS-III): spatial span subtest

Letter-Number-Span test

Brief Assessment of Cognition in Schizophrenia (BACS): digit sequencing subtest

Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale 3rd Ed. (WAIS-III): letter number sequencing subtest

Spatial delayed response task

Verbal learning

Hopkins Verbal Learning Test – revised (HVL-R): immediate recall

Neuropsychological Assessment Battery: daily living memory subtest

Visual learning

Brief Visuospatial Memory Test – Revised (BVMT-R)

Neuropsychological Assessment Battery: shape learning subtest

Reasoning and problem solving

Neuropsychological Assessment Battery (NAB): mazes subtest

Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale 3rd Ed. (WAIS-III): block design subtest

Brief Assessment of Cognition in Schizophrenia (BACS): Tower of London subtest

Social cognition

Mayer-Salovey-Caruso Emotional Intelligence Test (MSCEIT): managing emotions branch

Mayer-Salovey-Caruso Emotional Intelligence Test (MSCEIT): perceiving emotions branch

Co-primary measures

Functioning

Maryland Assessment of Social Competence

UCSD Performance-Based Skills Assessment

Schizophrenia Cognition Rating Scale

Clinical Global Impression of Cognition in Schizophrenia