| ABC | Artificial Bee Colony |
| ABM | Agent-Based Modeling |
| ABMHAP | Attention-Based Multi-Head Adaptive Pooling |
| AD | Alzheimer’s Disease |
| ADASYN | Adaptive Synthetic Sampling Approach for Imbalanced Learning |
| ADD | Alzheimer’s Disease Detection |
| ADNI | Alzheimer’s Disease Neuroimaging Initiative |
| ADRD | Alzheimer’s Disease and Related Dementias |
| AI | Artificial Intelligence |
| ALOX | Arachidonate Lipoxygenase |
| ALX | Lipoxin A4 Receptor |
| ANN | Artificial Neural Network |
| AP | Activator Protein |
| ATN | Amyloid/Tau/Neurodegeneration |
| ATP | Adenosine Triphosphate |
| AUC | Area Under the Curve |
| BAT | Bat Algorithm |
| BBB | Blood–Brain Barrier |
| BCI | Brain–Computer Interface |
| BIOCARD | Biomarkers of Cognitive Decline Among Normal Individuals |
| BPA | Bisphenol A |
| CART | Classification and Regression Tree |
| CDRSUM | Clinical Dementia Rating Sum of Boxes |
| CNN | Convolutional Neural Network |
| CNS | Central Nervous System |
| COX | Cyclooxygenase |
| CRP | C-Reactive Protein |
| CSF | Cerebrospinal Fluid |
| CWT | Continuous Wavelet Transform |
| DAMPs | Damage-Associated Molecular Patterns |
| DBS | Deep Brain Stimulation |
| DCCA | Detrended Cross-Correlation Analysis |
| DL | Deep Learning |
| DNA | Deoxyribonucleic Acid |
| DNN | Deep Neural Network |
| DT | Decision Tree |
| DYRK | Dual-specificity Tyrosine-Regulated Kinase |
| ECM | Extracellular Matrix |
| EEG | Electroencephalography |
| ERC | Extracellular Receptor Kinase (likely context-dependent, check text) |
| ERK | Extracellular Signal-Regulated Kinase |
| EXPANSE | Environmental Policy for the Ageing Population (project acronym) |
| FDG | Fluorodeoxyglucose |
| FFT | Fast Fourier Transform |
| FTLD | Frontotemporal Lobar Degeneration |
| GA | Genetic Algorithm |
| GBA | Gut–Brain Axis |
| GBM | Gradient Boosting Machine |
| GI | Gastrointestinal |
| GIS | Geographic Information System |
| GOC | Gut-on-a-Chip |
| HC | Healthy Control |
| HEALS | Health and Environment-wide Associations based on Large population Surveys (project acronym) |
| IBD | Inflammatory Bowel Disease |
| IEB | Intestinal Epithelial Barrier |
| IFN | Interferon |
| IL | Interleukin |
| IRT | Item Response Theory (context-dependent, check text) |
| KNN | K-Nearest Neighbors |
| LBP | Lipopolysaccharide-Binding Protein |
| LDA | Linear Discriminant Analysis |
| LOA | Lion Optimization Algorithm |
| LPS | Lipopolysaccharide |
| MAPK | Mitogen-Activated Protein Kinase |
| MCI | Mild Cognitive Impairment |
| MD | Mean Diffusivity |
| MGBA | Microbiota–Gut–Brain Axis |
| MINERVA | Mechanism-based Integrated Systems for Neurodegeneration and Disease Variation (project acronym) |
| ML | Machine Learning |
| MLP | Multi-Layer Perceptron |
| MMSE | Mini-Mental State Examination |
| MPS | Microphysiological Systems |
| MRI | Magnetic Resonance Imaging |
| MTAP | Multi-Task Attention Pooling |
| NADPH | Nicotinamide Adenine Dinucleotide Phosphate |
| NB | Naïve Bayes |
| NDD | Neurodegenerative Disease |
| NDDS | Novel Drug-Delivery Systems |
| NF | Nuclear Factor |
| NLP | Natural Language Processing |
| NN | Neural Network |
| NSD | Neuronal alpha-Synuclein Disease |
| OASIS | Open Access Series of Imaging Studies |
| OOC | Organ-on-a-Chip |
| PD | Parkinson’s Disease |
| PDMS | Polydimethylsiloxane |
| PET | Positron Emission Tomography |
| PFAS | Per- and Polyfluoroalkyl Substances |
| PSO | Particle Swarm Optimization |
| QDA | Quadratic Discriminant Analysis |
| RAGE | Receptor for Advanced Glycation End Products |
| RAGT | Robot-Assisted Gait Training |
| RF | Random Forest |
| RGB | Red, Green, Blue (color channels) |
| RNA | Ribonucleic Acid |
| RNS | Reactive Nitrogen Species |
| ROS | Reactive Oxygen Species |
| SCFA | Short-Chain Fatty Acids |
| SD | Standard Deviation |
| SPM | Specialized Pro-resolving Mediators |
| SSL | Semi-Supervised Learning |
| STHAM | Smart Technologies for Healthy Ageing with Multimorbidity (project acronym) |
| SVM | Support Vector Machine |
| TNF | Tumor Necrosis Factor |
| TRIF | TIR-domain-containing Adapter-Inducing Interferon-β |
| WGCNA | Weighted Gene Co-expression Network Analysis |