The MATRICS Consensus Cognitive Battery: An Update

Keith H Nuechterlein1,2, Michael F Green3,4, Robert S Kern3,4

  • 1Department of Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences, Semel Institute for Neuroscience and Human Behavior, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, USA. keithn@ucla.edu.

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