| ND | Neurodegenerative disease |
| AD | Alzheimer’s disease |
| APP | Amyloid precursor protein |
| Aβ | Amyloid beta peptide |
| HCHWA-D | Hereditary cerebral hemorrhage with amyloidosis |
| PiD | Pick’s disease |
| GFAP | Glial fibrillary acidic protein |
| SPECT | Single-photon emission computed tomography |
| PET | Positron emission tomography |
| APOE | Apolipoprotein E |
| BBB | Brain Blood Barrier |
| HDL | High density lipoprotein |
| CNS | Central Nervous System |
| NFTs | Neurofibrillary Tangles |
| GWAS | Genome-wide association study |
| PP2A | Protein phosphatase 2A |
| FTD | Frontotemporal Dementia |
| CTD | Chronic traumatic encephalopathy |
| CBD | Corticobasal degeneration |
| DAM | Disease-associated microglia |
| MGnD | Microglial neurodegenerative |
| TREM2 | Triggering receptor expressed on myeloid cells 2 |
| CRP | C-reactive protein |
| MCI | Mild cognitive impairment |
| MAPT | Microtubule-associated protein tau |
| PSP | Progressive supranuclear palsy |
| PHF | Abnormally hyperphosphorylated taus |
| CL | Centiloids |
| SUVR | Standardized Uptake Ration |
| PD | Parkinson’s disease |
| SNpc | Substantia nigra pars compacta |
| DA | Dopamine |
| DMV | Dorsal motor nucleus of vagus |
| OB | Olfactory bulb |
| LC | Locus coeruleus |
| IML | Intermediolateral nucleus in spinal cord |
| ENS | Enteric nervous system |
| EOPD | Early-onset Parkinson’s disease |
| mitoQC | Mitochondrial quality control |
| DFO | Deferrioxamine |
| DFP | Deferiprone |
| HD | Huntington’s disease |
| MSNs | Medium spiny neurons |
| mHTT | Mutation of the huntingtin gene |
| HTT | Huntingtin gene |
| CBP | cAMP response element-binding protein |
| MSK1 | Mitogen-activated and stress-activated protein kinase 1 |
| PGC-1a | Proliferator-activated receptor gamma coactivator alpha |
| HDAC | Histone deacetylase |
| BDNF | Brain-derived neurotrophic factor |
| ASOs | Antisense oligonucleotides |
| RNAi | RNA interference |
| CoQ10 | Coenzyme Q10 |
| CREST-E | Creatine safety tolerability efficacy in Huntington’s disease |
| ALS | Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis |
| FALS | Familial amyotrophic lateral sclerosis |
| DPR | Dipeptide repeat proteins |
| FUS | Fused in Sarcoma |
| miRNA | Micro RNA |
| PTM | Post-translational modification |
| UMN | Upper motor neuron |
| LMN | Lower motor neuron |
| PMA | Progressive muscular atrophy |
| PBP | Pseudobulbar Palsy |