EmBodyMeta
Guillermo Pérez Algorta · OSF Preprints (OSF Preprints) · 2026
AI-generated evidence extraction, verified across multiple analytical personas. Not a substitute for the peer-reviewed original.
Methodology & findings
Study design
Systematic review and meta-analysis with reproducible, partly automated (LLM-assisted, human-checked) search, screening, and extraction pipeline synthesizing randomised controlled trials.
Primary method
LLM-assisted (partly automated) search, screening, and extraction pipeline with human verification. Specific statistical synthesis methods are not detailed in the abstract.
Main result
EmBodyMeta is a living systematic review and meta-analysis that "identifies and synthesises randomised controlled trials of psychosocial support delivered to patients, carers, or dyads, across conditions, using a reproducible, partly automated (LLM-assisted, human-checked) search, screening, and extraction pipeline." The review focuses on psychosocial interventions for neurodegenerative conditions including Parkinson's, dementias, Huntington's disease, multiple sclerosis, and motor neurone disease.
Reports effect sizes.
Research paradigm
Positivist/empiricist (systematic evidence synthesis)
Risk of bias
Study is a protocol/living review - appears to be pre-results or in-progress; LLM-assisted screening introduces potential automation bias; No completion status or results reported yet
Open questions raised
- The review implicitly identifies gaps in the evidence base for psychosocial interventions in neurodegenerative conditions by synthesizing randomised controlled trials across multiple conditions (Parkinson's, dementias, Huntington's disease, multiple sclerosis, and motor neurone disease).
- The review aims to identify and synthesize evidence on "psychosocial (non-pharmacological) interventions for people with neurodegenerative conditions" and "their carers," suggesting gaps in synthesized understanding of such interventions across these conditions.
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