| AAV | adeno-associated virus |
| AD | Alzheimer’s disease |
| AGD | argyrophilic grain disease |
| APP | amyloid precursor protein |
| ARTAG | aging-related tau astrogliopathy |
| ASO | antisense oligonucleotide |
| Aβ | amyloid-β |
| CBD | corticobasal degeneration |
| CRISPR | clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats |
| Cryo-EM | cryogenic electron microscopy |
| CSF | cerebrospinal fluid |
| CTE | chronic traumatic encephalopathy |
| DLB | dementia with Lewy bodies |
| EC | entorhinal cortex |
| fAD | familial Alzheimer’s disease |
| FTD | frontotemporal dementia |
| GFP | green fluorescent protein |
| GGT | globular glial tauopathy |
| GVB | granulovacuolar degeneration body |
| iPSC | induced pluripotent stem cell |
| KI | knock-in |
| KO | knock-out |
| LBD | Lewy body dementia |
| LRP1 | lipoprotein receptor-related protein 1 |
| LRRK2 | leucine-rich repeat kinase |
| mAB | monoclonal antibody |
| MAPT | microtubule-associated protein tau |
| MTBR | microtubule-binding region |
| NFT | neurofibrillary tangle |
| PSEN | presenilin |
| P-tau | phosphorylated tau |
| PART | primary age-related tauopathy |
| PD | Parkinson’s disease |
| PDD | Parkinson’s disease dementia |
| PET | positron emission tomography |
| PFF | preformed fibril |
| PiD | Pick’s disease |
| PP2A | protein phosphatase 2A |
| PSP | progressive supranuclear palsy |
| PTM | post-translational modification |
| R | microtubule-binding repeat |
| Tg | transgenic |
| tTA | tetracycline transactivator |
| VCP | valosin-containing protein |
| WT | wild-type |
| α-syn | α-synuclein |