English

Alternative forms

• desynchronisation

Noun

desynchronization ‎(plural desynchronizations)

1. (American, Oxford British English, neurology) A loss of synchronization of brain waves.
   • 1996, Jaak Pansepp, “Affective Neuroscience”, in Emotion:Interdisciplinary Perspectives, ISBN 0805820280, page 53:

     FIG 2.4. Analysis of event-related desynchronizations (ERDs) in the author's brain during a 4 s period following the induction of emotional states using the Clynes' technique.

2. The loss or absence of synchronization; asynchronism.