Differential associations between types of verbal memory and prefrontal brain structure in healthy aging and late life depression

► Late life depression-LLD-group had lower list-learning compared to healthy controls. ► Groups did not differ on story-based recall on brain volumes associated with memory. ► Frontal volumes (subjective organization) correlated with list-learning in LLD only. ► First to demonstrate neuroanatomical dissociations across types of memory in LLD. ► Anterior brain network may underlie the executive contribution to LLD list-learning.