175. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Depression and the Neural Correlates of Emotion Regulation: Prediction of Treatment Outcome and Longitudinal Effects

Cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) is effective for a substantial minority of patients with major depressive disorder (MDD), but its mechanism of action is unknown, and predictors of treatment outcome are lacking. As core techniques of CBT seek to enhance emotion regulation, we examined the neural correlates of emotion regulation using functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (fMRI) before and after a course of CBT for...